Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder about the best way to link to bugs in commits

[Yuri Astrakhan]

> As I wrote at
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Git/Workflow#Release_notes_conflicts_20763
> ,
> this can be easily re-streamlined with a merge driver.  As
> release notes for MediaWiki are probably mostly additions,
> it shouldn't be too hard to cover the common cases, and we
> certainly don't have the ambition to do text analysis in C,
> but can settle for Perl (or Python or even PHP :-)) instead.
>
> Tim, it would be great if this worked on the gerrit side, but apparently
it has to be implemented in java in order to work with the gerrit server
(at least that's what i was told). Implementing a core gerrit feature like
that might be a bit more resource intensive than having a simple bot... (?)
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